Jason R. Cooper of New Suffolk died suddenly at his family’s home on June 7, 2017. He was 47 years old.
He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 20, 1920 to Barbara (nee Jordan) and Sherwood M. Cooper Sr.
In 1988, he graduated from Southold High School and served in the United States Navy where he was a veteran of the first Gulf War — Desert Storm.
For the past 18 years, he served with the Air National Guard currently as an accessories branch Master Sergeant at Francis S. Gabreski Air National Guard base in Westhampton Beach.
Cooper was a volunteer with the Cutchogue Fire Department and a member of the Mattituck Presbyterian Church.
Predeceased by his father Sherwood M. Cooper Sr. in 2010 and his twin brother Steven in 2007, he is survived by his wife Jeanette whom he married on December 10, 2000 in Mattituck, his children Thomas, Robert and Anna, his mother Barbara of New Suffolk and siblings William of Mattituck, Sherwood Cooper Jr. of Islamorada, Florida, Timothy Cooper of Santa Clarita, California and Laura Goy of Cutchogue.
The family received friends on June 10 and 11 at the DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Home in Mattituck where military and firematic services were conducted. Funeral services were held on June 12 at the Mattituck Presbyterian Church with Rev. Dr. John Carrick officiating. Interment, with U.S. Air Force honors, was at the Cutchogue Cemetery.
Memorial donations to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital or Cutchogue Fire Department would be appreciated.
